Plate and web for garment-clasps.



H. E. ORANDALL.

PLATE AND WEB FOR GARMENT GLASPS. APPLICATION FILED DEC. 30, 1907.

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HERMAN E. GRANDALL, OF NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT.

PLATE AND WEB 'FOR GARMENT-CLASPS.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HERMAN E. CRANDALL, a citizen of the United States,residing at New Britain, in the county of Hartford and State ofConnecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Platesand l/Vebs for Garment-Clasps, of which the following is aspecification.

My invent-ion relates to improvements in plates and webs for garmentclasps, and the object of my improvement is to avoid the expense oftipping the end of the web, or sewing the web to the plate.

In the accompanying drawing: Figure l is a front elevation of a plateand button, together with a portion of the web to which the said plateis attached. Fig. 2 is a like view of the said plate and button, withoutthe web. Fig. 3 is a sectional view of the same on the line a:a: of Fig.'2, together with a sectional view of a portion of the web as threadedthrough one of the eyes of the plate and an elevation of the buttonbelonging to the said plate. Fig. 4 is a front elevation of the saidplate and button, with the two end portions of the web, the lower end ofthe web being shown as. completely passed through the lower eye of theplate, and the upper end as partially passed through the upper eye ofthe plate. Figs. 5 and 6 are front elevations or plan views of plateswith out the button and with modified forms of eyes. Fig. 7 is anenlarged vertical section of the plate and web of Figs. 1, 2, 3 and 4,the button being shown in side elevation.

A, designates the web and B the plate, to which plate, as shown in Figs.1, 2, 3, 4, and 7, an ordinary button or stud 13, is secured. Theseplates are designed to be attached to the lower end 14 of the web A of agarment supporter. In some cases the plate and web have heretofore beensecured together by providing a plate with a broad lower eye havingupwardly projecting. prongs at its lower edge for penetrating the webwhich extended through the said eye. In some cases they have beensecured together by passing the end of the web through one or both eyesof the plate and then sewing the web. In

some cases a'metal or other special tip has been secured to or formed onthe end of the web, so that when the web was drawn taut, the end wouldnot pull through the eyes of the plate. Such plates have had their eyesmade in the form of slots of substantially the same width from end toend, the width being Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed December 30, 1907.

Patented Dec. 2 2, 1908. Serial No. 408,688.

some four to six times the thickness of the web to which the plates wereattached. My

.plates are in general of the ordinary form.

would be very difficult, if not im ossible, to

pass the end of the web througr the eye. The provision which I make forthreading the web is to form an enlarged threading portion 16,preferably at one end of the eye, as shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 4, thewidth of this enlargement is several times the thickness of the web A,so that one corner of one end of the web can readily be passed throughthe eye at the said enlarged or wider portion. Then, by taking hold ofthis corner so passed through, the web may be pulled or drawn throughthe eye, as shown for the lower end 14 of the web in Fig. 3. The end 14is so passed through the lower eye from the front and is turned upagainst the rear of the plate B, as shown best in Fig. 7. The upper end17 of the web is then carried downwardly and back of the plate and isthreaded through the upper eye from the rear. In Fig. 4, I have shownone corner of this upper end 17 projected through the enlarged threadingportion of the eye, preparatory to drawing the web tightly through so asto fill substantially the eye for its whole length, as shown in Fig. 1.It is then drawn up tightly as shown in Fig. 7, when owing to the narrowportions of the eyes and the bends of the web, the plate is attached tothe web so firmly that it cannot be ulled off nor otherwise becomeaccidentally etached andthis without sewing the web together or withoutproviding the web with any kind of a tip that differs in any way fromthe body of the web and without the employment of web enetrating prongs.

In Figs. 5 and 6, the Bp ates are designated respectively as B B B, B,and B In Fi 5 the narrow ortions 15 are at each enc of the eyes whi ethe wider portion or enlargement 16 is in the middle of the length ofeach eye. In Fig. 7, both eyes have the narrow ortions 15 with enlargedportions 16 at t e ends. In Fig. 6, both eyes have the enlarged portions16 in the middle and narrow portions 15 at the ends.

In all of the forms shown the web is threaded through the eye by firstpassing one parts of the eyes.

In the forms shown in Figs. 5 and 6, the web is held or gripped at bothedges by each of the eyes there shown. In the form shown in Figs. 1 to 4inclusive and in Fig. 7, the web is gripped by one edge within the lowereye and by its opposite edge within the upper eye, so that the two eyestogether grip the Web firmly at opposite edges. In addition to theforegoing, the gripping portion of each eye extends over more than halfof the length of the said eye, so that the web is firmly gripped notonly at its opposite edges but for its entire width.

I claim as my invention:

1. In a garment clasp, a plate having eyes and a supporting web to oneend of which the said plate is attached, the said eyes each having anarrow web gripping portion that extends throughout half the length ofthe said eyes, and an enlarged threading portion at one end of each eye,the said threading portions of the said eyes being arrangedsubstantially at the diagonally opposite corners of the said plate,whereby the web is firmly gripped for its entire width.

2. In a arment clas a plate having a button stud projecting rom itsfront side, a horizontally extended eye above the said button stud andanother horizontally extended eye below the said button stud, each ofthe said eyes having an enlarged threading portion and a narrow grippingportion, the said two eyes being arranged in the said plate with anarrow gripping portion at one end of one eye near one side of the saidplate, and a narrow gripping portion at one end of one eye near theopposite side of the said plate, and a supporting web to one end ofwhich the said plate is attached and held by having the said endthreaded therethrough and gripped at its opposite edges.

. HERMAN E. CRANDALL.

Witnesses:

E. GLAUTZBERG, J. H. KIRKHAM.

